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Founding Data Lead

Pocket · San Francisco, CA, US / Remote · Remote

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About Pocket

Take Notes in the Real World. Backed by Accel and Y Combinator.

About the role

The owner of Pocket’s data foundation and decision-making systems end to end . You make our data reliable, accessible, and actionable across product, growth, marketing, sales, finance, and operations .

What they're looking for

  • Experience working in a high-growth startup or technology company
  • Experience analyzing customer cohorts at the scale of hundreds of thousands of users , ideally while the company was growing toward millions
  • Advanced SQL skills and strong working knowledge of Python
  • Hands-on experience with modern data warehouses, transformation tools such as dbt, BI platforms, and product analytics tools
  • Experience building reliable data pipelines and models —not only analyzing existing datasets
  • Strong understanding of cohort analysis, retention, funnels, segmentation, experimentation, CAC, LTV, and attribution
More about this role

The owner of Pocket’s data foundation and decision-making systems end to end . You make our data reliable, accessible, and actionable across product, growth, marketing, sales, finance, and operations .

Pocket has already reached hundreds of thousands of customers and is scaling toward millions. Our data spans customer acquisition, e-commerce, hardware, app usage, subscriptions, customer support, and international markets. Your job is to connect these sources into a trusted system that helps us understand our customers and consistently make better decisions .

You will build the core data infrastructure, define how Pocket measures the customer journey, and work directly with teams to turn analysis into clear recommendations. You should be equally comfortable writing SQL, designing data models, investigating customer behavior, and explaining to founders what the company should do next .

This is a hands-on, founder-facing role for someone who wants to build Pocket’s data function from the ground up—not simply maintain dashboards or respond to reporting requests.

  • Pocket’s data strategy, architecture, and analytics foundation
  • A reliable single source of truth across Shopify, Amazon,...

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